View of Ouray to Silverton, Colorado stage road in the San Juans; "Toll Road" originally built by Otto Mears in 1883; later became U.S. Highway 550 - "Million Dollar Highway"; possibly Uncompahgre River or Red Mountain Creek, left foreground, with...

A large group listens to a speaker during the dedication of the Million Dollar Highway (U.S. 550), north of Red Mountain Pass, in the San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. Automobiles park along the improved mountain road. Mine tailings show on a...

A man in a carriage pauses at a rock outcropping with painted graffiti, along the Ouray to Silverton stage road, later the Million Dollar Highway (U. S. 550), in the San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. Lettering reads: "Wheeler Wilson's sewing...

View of William Weston's one-story home in Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, shows a couple with a carriage, possibly William at the fence gate, his wife inside the fence holding a deer, and another man in the background standing next to two horses. ...

Two men in a fringe top surrey make their way along a high, narrow section of the Ouray to Silverton stage road, later the Million Dollar Highway (U. S. 550), in the San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. They carry a bale of hay in the back of the...

Three men stand outside their automobile, on a wide spot on the Million Dollar Highway (U.S. 550), in the San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. The improved route is widened and has built up stone guardrails. Mineral Creek shows below the rocky cliff...

View along the Ouray to Silverton Toll Road built by Otto Mears in 1883, San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. A man in a horse drawn carriage reaches into a back storge box. The dirt road cuts along steeps slopes and is built up with timbering. Later...

View along a narrow section of Ouray to Silverton Toll Road built by Otto Mears in 1883, San Juans of the Colorado Rockies, high above of Mineral Creek. Later the road became the Million Dollar Highway (U.S. 550). Telegraph wires are strung along...

View along the Ouray to Silverton Toll Road built by Otto Mears in 1883, in the San Juans (Ouray County), Colorado. A carriage pauses near a bridge. Telegraph lines are strung down the rocky canyon walls. Later the road became the Million Dollar...

A automobile with a Utah license plate pauses along the Ouray to Silverton Toll Road built by Otto Mears in 1883, San Juans of the Colorado Rockies. A pipe guardrail shows along a curve above of Mineral Creek. Road later became the Million Dollar...

View along the Ouray to Silverton Toll Road built by Otto Mears in 1883, San Juans of the Colorado Rockies, shows bridge built over a void in a rocky cliff face. Telegraph lines are strung down the rocky canyon walls of Mineral Creek. Road later...

Lizard Head, in San Miguel County, Colorado, consists of a one- story frame railroad depot and a show shed. A sign on the depot reads: "Lizard Head elev 10,500." Snow dotted peaks of the San Juans are in the background.

View southeast of Telluride, Colorado, with San Juans and cliffs in background; shows predominately wood frame vernacular structures, houses, barns and sheds. Larger brick and stone buildings include old school with hipped roof, San Miguel County...

View east down mud and debris-filled street from the disastrous Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows two-story false front, Iowa House on corner, other wood frame businesses, and residences. Men and woman make their way...

Panoramic view of Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with snow-covered San Juans in background; shows Cornet Falls, Aspen Street, old schoolhouse, San Miguel County Courthouse, Sheridan Hotel, First National Bank, Town Hall steeples, Rio...

View north over west end of Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows San Juans with light snow and Cornet Falls in background, wood-frame vernacular houses, barns and sheds with predominately front gables, dirt Townsend and Colorado Avenues...

View west of Telluride, Colorado, from high on Continental Divide; shows town at foot of box canyon, San Juans, clifffs, gridlines formed by streets, Rio Grande Southern Railroad tracks, and San Miguel River on south side of town.

View north across San Miguel River and Rio Grande Southern Railroad Yards to Telluride, Colorado; shows cliffs and San Juans in background, station yard with two long passing narrow gauge tracks, two thirty-car spurs with box cars, caboose and...

View looking northeast over Telluride, Colorado, with cliffs, Cornet Falls and San Juans in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures with a few brick or stone structures including San Miguel County Courthouse, old school on...

A pack train loaded with milled lumber gathers in front of John Donald Stables, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Sign on top of the livery reads: "The Freighter Packer, John Donald, All Parts The San Juans." Business next door has a painted sign:...

View southeast down Cornet Creek after the flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado. Jack Hawkins' two-story wood frame Victorian with front porch and second story bay window tilts on side from flood waters in centerground; smaller destroyed...

Birdseye view of Lake City and San Juans, Colorado, from southeast bluff west of town; shows early frame structures and confluence of Lake Fork and Henson Creek, Crooke's Smelter, and snowy San Juan Mountains in background.

View of Ouray to Silverton, Colorado stage road in the San Juans of the Rockies; "Toll Road" built by Otto Mears in 1883; possibly Promontory Point one-half mile south of Bear Creek Falls; Uncompahgre River, 800 feet below trail at this point,...

View of San Juans of the Rocky Mountains possibly near Red Mountain Mining District, Ironton Park, Colorado along Ouray-Silverton stage road; "Toll Road" originally built by Otto Mears in 1883, later became U.S. Highway 550 - "Million Dollar...

in San Juans. Packer, "the human cannibal," found guilty of their murders.; View of monument at foot of Slumgullion Pass, a few miles south outside of Lake City, Colorado. Jim Zeigler and Victoria Seifried stand at iron fence that surrounds marker...

View looking northeast over Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with cliffs and San Juans in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures with a few brick structures including the new county brick courthouse under construction and...

View looking northeast over Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with cliffs and San Juans in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures; side and back view of original 1885 county brick courthouse centerground; American House...

View across Trout Lake in San Miguel County, Colorado; also shows clouds and mountains; Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge track & grade with water tower & canvas tents on east side of lake, center left; San Juans, Rocky Mountains.